skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Taken from the description:

> Governments have criminalized the practice of managing your own health. Despite the fact that for most of human history bodily autonomy, and self-managed health was the norm, it is now required that most aspects of your health must be mediated by an institution deputized by the state. Taking those rights back for yourself is then labeled "BioTerrorism". So be it. Let's learn how.

This is, in most country, false. You can absolutely decide on your own to mix up some chemical and then take it (you might just be held accountable for the result, i.e, not coverage from your health insurance). There is some exception related to the consumption of narcotics, but, what most law, not government (its an important distinction in a democracy), make illegal is the distribution (and the intent of) of drugs without the proper licence.
And there is very, very good reasons for it. Drugs are no joke. Some ingredients needs to be very precisely dosed, at very low concentration, requiring special tooling and precaution, or you might reach a toxic dosage very, very quickly and kill someone (or permanently damage some organs).
Then, there is the issue of quack doctor and quack medicine. While the current system is far from perfect (see: the opioid crisis in the US), it still give legal repercussion for people who sale snake oil, potentialy dangerous ones, and who prey on already often desperate victim.

The other thing is, the law also prevent buying some chemical without the proper licence. And again, there is usually good reasons for it. Either because they make it easy to synthetise drugs that society has judged detrimental (again, narcotics like meth, heroin, ...), or because they make explosives (wasn't it sulfuric acid that could turn a lot of stuff into energetics ?).

And for the most part, theses laws where written in blood. We can debate the specifics of their implementations (the war on drugs, the free access to birth control, how to allow for experimentation, ...), but the overall spirit of those laws is, I believe, sadly very needed in our current world.

Obviously there is also the patent issue, but it's a whole lot of debate in itself.
FOSS washing software is similarly frustrating.

When I see a license on a project I expect that project will provide the code under that license and function fully at runtime, not play games of "Speak to a sales rep to flip that bit or three to enable that codepath".
If I were a man, I'd be way too afraid to drop my phone into the urinal to do this.
Good point. I meant light in calories, not the caffeine. Note that I only drink these during long flights (since 200mg of caffeine is a lot) and one is enough.
> there’s also ways to lock yourself out of apps and websites after X amount of time on them

I've tried this, but it feels like a big administrative burden, having to think about how long each app should be, when it should be available etc, similar to the feelings I had on Facebook about bureaucratising friendships (who's an "acquiantance", who's a "close friend").

It feels like you have to make so many explicit decisions for digital stuff that was much more fluid before - don't want X to come to a party? Don't phone them.
Yep, that was the one -- I think it was more dominated by "how to save webpages" discussions when I was looking at it.

I had no idea that posting in the comments was preferred (though it does make sense!)
How much heavy fuel does a suezmax vessel carry? Less than 1% of the full deadweight, I assume.

Costs of carrying fuel are negligible.
I wasn’t alive for Carter’s presidency, so can someone explain how his handling of the hostages in Iran was positive at all for the United States?

To me as an American even this many years later and as a young person who didn’t see it, ending your presidency while another nation holds your citizens seems extremely embarrassing.

And all I see is extreme praise of the man. I’d honestly like to see some discussion here.
And Reagan also had the Iran Contra controversy which was selling arms to Iran to fund the Contras in Nicaragua. When asked in a deposition about what he knew, Reagan famously said, "I don't remember". It may have been a legal tactic to avoid culpability, but it could also have been real and highlighted the man's cognitive decline. Or worse, his advisors knew about the cognitive decline, kept information from him, and then ran their own foreign policy in the basement of the pentagon.
And now its successor state is on a warpath and has seemingly free reign.

It didn't fail. It just regrouped and waited for western hegemony to grow weaker and indecisive.

I'd say we're back to where we started with a much tougher set of adversaries.
The 'drawback' could also be "unnecessarily extends the product's lifetime and hurts sales of next year's model".
Well ... CNN says dating apps are changing ...

... maybe not that much :)
> FluffyChat, Nheko, Cinny are all great fully featured apps and separate codebases

Ok, I was mistaken about everything being an Element fork.

To move the goalposts slightly though --- do any of these apps properly support threads (i.e. messages in threads show up in and only in separate views)?
This is a relatively new invention as well. When radio first started in the US (late 1890s), callsigns were arbitrary. I believe the Kxxx and Wxxx divide started in the 1920s. Also, this callsign convention applies for TV broadcast as well.
Non white countries with a European culture?

Could you give an example?
the chip is inside the relatively soft back cover, not in the polycarbonate page
What do you think is missing? In the US we have whole government agencies (themselves unionized) dedicated to protecting worker rights.
once you hit 50’s it could take awhile at the urinal :)
“woke” the adjective not the past tense verb. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/woke

For clarity, my suggestion was also sarcastic.
You can avoid a lot of joy that way, too.
I ran it temporarily in Docker the other day. It was a 8gb image. I'm unsure why a webui is 8gb.
None of these countries expel their own citizens just because they had Russian parents or whatever.
So what does your Service do?
> there are ways to contribute morally outside of your 9-5. Volunteer to teach a neighborhood kid to code.

This simplistic view of the world does not scale -- especially so in today's global economy. Imagine we never had public education and instead relied on the good nature of individuals to teach their neighborhood kids. Imagine competing at a global level without a coordinated educational system with baseline standards. Instead, what we need is to teach every kid how to code (many may not end up coding as a profession, but that's fine; every kid that has the affinity and talent and and wants to do it should have the chance).

That's nominally why we have government of the people, by the people, for the people. That's why we have taxes. These scale when the interests are aligned. We've seen them scale.

The problem arises when (as Mitt Romney famously expressed) we think of corporations as people, too, and assign them rights associated with personhood.

They are of "some" people, by "some" people, for "some" people.

This is the crisis I think the US is having now. This is what it think was punctuated with COVID; there is no longer the spirit of "we" and the US is in the era of "me".
> It _should_ be cheap to operate HA systems across 2-3 AZs,

In the steady state. HA systems tend towards large data bursts when failures or upgrades occur.

> And at $0.01/GB, that's 2~10X what smaller providers charge for _internet_ egress.

It's a lower latency network with a high SLA and automatic credits if the SLA isn't maintained. I think the inter-AZ option provides a level of service that's much higher than what most people want or need.

It might be nice if there was a "best effort" inter-AZ network. This would probably fit better with the synchronization methods built into most HA software anyways.

So, to me, it's a good product, it's just designed for a very niche segment of the market and often mistaken for something more general than it actually is.
Are you claiming that it's not possible to use bluesky without running into such content?

I've been using it since early on in the invite era and have yet to come across it at all. Just like with Twitter, I only look at the feed showing me the people I follow. On neither site am I forced to see content I don't want to see.
AHCI with typo... oh boy
I was going to say ...

(I got as far as lithium - at least - something did not quite add up ...)
I suspect the original author’s use of “a built racing engine” was a bad example since there is no factory line for such things as they are too low volume. However, if we loosen the definition of racing engine to include hot rods, then I believe proven factory built designs are highly valued. To give one example:

> The 2JZ-GTE, which sits in the heart of the Supra, is one of the best inline-six out of Japan and easily tunable to 500+ Hp on stock internals.

https://www.drifted.com/1gz-fe/
I guess, but doesn't that start to feel like the tyranny of productivity? If it doesn't take long while you're the urinal it doesn't take long just afterwards too, and then you can enjoy the feeling of having a pee! (Perhaps there's a blogpost in "Mindful pissing"...)
In Europe bookies just get rid of good players, except for the exchanges and Pinnacle. No one serious will gamble with European bookmakers. Though maybe this has changed lately. I have not been following field recently.

In Asia the bookies are a lot more tolerant, especially the larger ones. You really have to hit their pnl hard for you to get cut off.
That replacement didn't last long. The Democrats had an absolutely historic filibuster-proof majority. It's a bit odd that blue Massachusetts would choose a Republican, even a relatively moderate one, to replace Kennedy, but for the Senate as a whole it was something of a reversion to the mean. He did not win re-election, and was replaced by Elizabeth Warren.

It did derail the Democratic agenda, but mostly because Republicans made it their mission to ensure that Obama was a one term President. That has been policy ever since, and effectively zero legislation has come out of Congress since.

Democrats did manage to finesse the sole legislative accomplishment of the last couple of decades, the Affordable Care Act. In a lot of ways it was a fairly trivial change to the health care system, but getting anything passed at all was, in the Vice President's words, "a big [effing] deal".
Local is private. You are not handing over your data to An AI for training.
Ships don’t use all that much fuel. A Panamax ship has a capacity of 2 million gallons of fuel and that would be ~2,600 tons. The total tonnage of a Panamax ship is ~52,000 tons.

Most cargo shipping saves fuel by just running slower.
> Boredom is a good thing for the brain.

I hear this adage repeated a lot, but is it true? A quick kagi finds me lots of news articles quoting neuro-scientists, but no actual studies I can see.

If it is, I assume like sleep or vegetables there's a certain amount you should have per day and a point of diminishing returns.
Unions don’t really protect against layoffs. All they can really do is whine about it.
There's no one accountable like Boeing if they can blame it on a random bird.
> holier-than-thou

All I said, was that I worked for a company for a long time, was basically happy, the work environment was not perfect, I found their ethics attractive, and don't have any regrets.

We live in a really sick world, if that can be interpreted as "holier-than-thou." I know dozens of people, personally, that can say exactly the same thing. They don't consider themselves "special," and I don't really care that much. Almost none are in the tech industry, though, so maybe that's the difference.

I also know a lot of folks that work at jobs they hate; often, for big money. I don't waste time judging them, and am just happy to have them in my life.

I tend to avoid folks that are actively trying to be unethical, but I'm not on a mission to convert them. If they ever want to do things differently, I might have something they could use.

It's sad to think that someone, saying what I did, is somehow "wrong." It's really not a big deal.
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How many people are running their own mail outside of large orgs or privacy/security niche? How many of those have had trouble sending mail to eg gmail?
You're taking things literally, but the point is that everything is overpriced with apple and they're getting away with it because of the cult following they've cultured and are now milking. In my previous comment, I simply picked one of the ridiculous things cult followers pay for.

They're going to keep milking their followers no matter how ridiculous each point seems when someone puts it in writing. That's how "the needle moves".
> Complexity is holding multiple, sometimes contradictory, things in one’s mind at once.

Yes!

> Mullis can be intolerable but still responsible for something meaningful.

Sort of! Agree with the spirit of the sentence, but "intolerable" is a blanket statement. Intolerable to whom?

OK, so you don't want to have him over to dinner. That's fine; I get it. But do we just start calling people "intolerable" if a large number of people don't like them? Should UC Berkeley Alumni magazine publish a puff piece on "The Intolerable Joe Biden"?

I won't be holding my breath.
You said it better than I would have. Biden put a lot of smart people around him, and together they made many long term investments in states that overwhelmingly voted for Trump. He will be remembered differently than he is now.
Their taxes are so high because of the national debt. They got that debt to provide things that were urgently needed. Anyways, this has nothing to do with the subject at hand since there are people who campaign against these things aka fight.
The correct use of Tarot is as a trick-taking card game, and was used this way for centuries before a random French occultist wrote a book about using it for divination.
It is even possible, though far from certain, that the ancestors of current Inuit exterminated the Norse settlers in the 15th century.

History rarely walks the paths prescribed by modern ideologues.
I wonder if the ISS could instead be scrapped to the moon.

Let's get this space station to the moon.

Can a [Falcon 9 [Heavy] or similar] rocket shove the ISS from its current attitude into an Earth-Moon orbit with or without orbital refuelling?

The ISS weighs 900,000 lbs on Earth.

Have we yet altered the orbital trajectory of anything that heavy in space?

Can any existing rocket program rendezvous and boost sideways to alter the trajectory of NEOs (Near-Earth Objects) or aging, heirloom, defunct space stations?

Which of the things of ISS that we have internationally paid to loft into orbit would be useful for future robot, human, and emergency operations on the Moon?
This is only true for very sophisticated computing. From my point of view general purpose computing is alive and and every bit as free as the good old days. The only barriers are points of view.

Here is just one example of computing that has no limits on problem solving. The only limits are scale and what good is scale anyway. Problems solved at scale are too general and over complex for most individuals problems.

https://hackaday.com/2019/09/09/everything-you-wanted-to-kno...
I'm not aware of any particular guides, the setup here was straightforward - an old motherboard with two PCIe X16 slots (Asus P8Z77V or P8Z77WS), a big enough power supply (Seasonic 850W) and the stock linux Nividia drivers. The RTX 3090's are basic Dell models (i.e. not OC'ed gamer versions), and worth noting they only get hot if used continuously - if you're the only one using them, the fans spin up during a query and back down between. Good 'smoke test' is something like 'while 1; do 'ollama run llama3.3 "Explain cosmology"'; done.

With llama3.3 70B, two RTX3090s gives you 48GB of VRAM and the model uses about 44Gb; so the first start is slow (loading the model into VRAM) but after that response is fast (subject to comment above about KEEP_ALIVE).
I think it's only feasible to go with this "classic web" approach by having it be a paid service.
It’s comical that you are comparing Memphis to China. But lets take this even further and increase our sample set from just Jan 2023 - Dec 2023, to Jan 1923 - Dec 2023, this is more indicative of the downsides of authoritarianism, and clearly shows Memphis as less homicidal than China.
Nice recommendations. Thanks! The no-ads bit is great; I agree! (I donate to keep that train going!)
> The drawback could be as simple as “higher cost to manufacture” or “higher risk of consumers using incorrect/third party batteries”

This wouldn’t be an issue if we had some kind of standards around batteries for cellphones rather than making unique batteries for every single model.

If you could just buy a “Type B” format phone battery for a phone this would eliminate the issue. It would be similar to the charger market, where different manufacturers could compete. This is _toward_ the market economics that capitalists so love, unless they’re benefiting from market capture of proprietary parts.

One-off designs are wasteful and drive up costs and drive down quality.
How are they authoritans? Do you just look at the optics, or do you look at the damage done to the EU in monetary terms? Because those are two different things?
What's frustrating is that a few years ago a recession was predicted, and we avoided that. But no one seems to have even mentioned it during the election. Am I just misremembering this? At least in the tech sector, lots of layoffs seemed to be attributed to the coming downturn.
Your commments are great, and made me lol, which is super rare - great insight, honestly... thanks

But if you've never had kids, you're missing out on so much. This is just my experience, and is how I "grew up" from 20-35. I didn't want kids, but now love them so much, and as 55 year old man, with a 21 and 20 year old that still live with me, I'm doing so well, and have been blessed by them being in my life, and my wife who wanted kids more than I did, lol.

I know you are probably aware of this, and it probably tears at you, in some way. I know it did for me. And your mission, if you choose to accept it is not to live life on your own terms, but on the terms of God (imho), your health, your wife, your kids (if you choose to have them), and ultimately in others, which once you perfect the previous, you will want to help others more than anyone else.

Not everyone has to have children of course, and in many ways it'd be easier if you didn't, but it sounds to me like your seeking new paths, and this is a life changer, imho, and something that every generation before you did, to have you, and bring YOU to life.

Good luck!
This sounds terrible.

If the council isn't going to do anything, you might consider:

- keeping as much documentation and evidence (e.g. date stamped video or audio recordings), and

- searching Google for 'taking your own action under Section 82 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990'
Bluesky is centralized. Mastodon is decentralized. Neither is distributed.
I'm not talking (just) about the USA.
In my buble people often hoard properties to let but many just hoard them because they can and taxes are (too) low.

Someone has an advantage in income, access to financing, reaches a threshold and 10 years later they flip 10 houses, all payed by not so fortunate tenants, and the owner thinks he's some kind of rightous capitalist.

The whole rent-seeking behavior is a scourge on society.
Landing gear issues are pretty common when I check avherald.com, and you have many of them throughout a year. So the likelihood to have two or three of them during the same day is high. Even without considering that traffic is more intense at specific times.

You don’t have to consider all the planes, more all the landing gear issues.
My only hope is that as more and more companies find stuff like this out, there will be a larger shift towards on-prem / colo. Time is a circle.
And in doing that it's endorsing some random website that makes things up and elevating that garbage to be something users trust 'because it's on Google.'

Users will need to learn that Google is only as trustworthy as the crappy websites it uses for data that drives its AI. I'll leave it up to you to work out how that might impact Google's brand.
Being generous, I’m maybe in agreement if the word “most” gets some clarification or nuance.
Trump won the Civil War for the Confederacy.
From May of 2012, as the dateline's somewhat obscure there.
This is a duplicate of the following reddit comment: https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1hp5r20/comment/m...
Guitars are manufactured from organic material. Even coming off of a factory line, no two guitars are identical because no two pieces of wood are identical.
>This is only true for very sophisticated computing

Like a bog-standard Dell??
you started out suggesting it wasn't possible and when presented with a common case showing it was not only possible but likely, you moved the goal posts and now say "well, I don't do that." Weak sauce.
How to create an efficient static hash table?
In the latest polls the two parties who want to reopen Nord Stream (AfD and BSW) have 25%. Many Germans (I'm one of them) still shy away from these parties and grudgingly vote mainstream, because obviously Nord Stream is just one of many issues:

https://www.wahlrecht.de/umfragen/

So I'd estimate that in an honest poll to reopen Nord Stream and protect it militarily you'd easily get 60% in favor. That aligns with the 61% of Germans who are against delivery of Taurus missiles:

https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2024/03/12/...

That 61% is in danger of being ignored yet again if Merz becomes chancellor in Feburary next year, though it will be Trump who is in the driver's seat by then.
The Carter Center is on the verge of eradicating Guinea worm disease, a hideous illness that predominantly afflicts the poor. I hope other former Presidents can use their political leverage to help people in similar ways.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dracunculiasis

https://www.cartercenter.org/health/guinea_worm/index.html